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When Diablo 3 launches, players will be able to buy and sell any and every item in the game through real money auction houses.
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Red flag, cross the line, turning point...
Whatever happened to Blizzard's ideology that items that are for sale have no impact on gameplay... so players can't essentially 'ebay' their characters? All the game I know of that allow you to exchange real world money for in game items are all terrible with the exception of TF2. However, in TF2 it's quite easy to get said items by in game means and you aren't at a disadvantage if you don't have them (even the base items are still pretty good).
This is a step in a very wrong direction.
"He said that players want it, and that if they [Blizzard] didn't offer it, outside companies would."
Another company is going to make a Diablo 3 and sell items in it? ...or are they attempting to say they have absolutely no control over their world and gold sellers that operate in it?
The former is hard to believe and the later will always have gold sellers operating illegally outside of their means for cheaper then anyone that works inside of it.
"At the same time, combatting the efforts of those outside profiteers cost Blizzard valuable resources."
It's tough fucking shit being the good guy and standing up for things in the world. I'm sorry that underhanded means of making business generate a lot of money. Drug and firearm trades are definitely lucrative too.
"However, he admitted the team will need to monitor thing closely as it's something that's never been done before"
No, you know what? It's going to spiral completely out of control. As soon as people start putting a value on an item in real world money and they DEVALUE it, then they can come back and bitch about how much worse it is and that what they have isn't what they bought. With in game currency you can say tough shit, but when people spend actual money on something it definitely rubs them the wrong way when you spit on it.
This is a huge balancing issue and this is one of the reasons Blizzard didn't put items up for money in the first place. Even if they don't sell the items themselves, what they're doing is the same thing, they're just trying to pretend they have no hand in what happens besides skimming the coughers.
Oh, and I'm still waiting to see the 'premium' maps pop up on SC2 for sale. All I've seen so far is a couple decent maps that were made before SC2 launched and that are still being played and a bunch of DotA, zombie, tower D, and protect the guy clones. It's funny how everyone forgot about what Blizzard was going to do and it just kinda disapeared without anyone noticing.
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